Re: Negative permissions WITHOUT ACLs

+ "Starfish" <frel8817@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

| Here goes: How do you specify negative permission¹ in Unix/Linux
| without using ACLs?
|
| ¹E.g. saying that the user "Ellen" should not have write access to a
| file regardless of the permissions given to her groups.

Remove Ellen from the passwd file. ;->

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  • Re: Negative permissions WITHOUT ACLs
    ... How do you specify negative permission¹ in Unix/Linux ... without using ACLs? ... saying that the user "Ellen" should not have write access to a ... Try making "Ellen" the owner of the file and giving it 464 access. ...
    (comp.security.unix)
  • Re: Negative permissions WITHOUT ACLs
    ... How do you specify negative permission¹ in Unix/Linux ... saying that the user "Ellen" should not have write access to a ... That's why they invented ACLs, ... UNIX permissions can't do that sort of thing. ...
    (comp.security.misc)
  • Re: Negative permissions WITHOUT ACLs
    ... Starfish wrote: ... without using ACLs? ... file regardless of the permissions given to her groups. ...
    (comp.security.misc)